-You won’t be completing the NCP form. The NCP does that.
-The wording tells you nothing about what Columbia’s actual policy is regarding the use of a stepparent’s income and assets in calculating institutional need-based aid. They get the stepparent information, because the standard Profile and NCP forms ask for it. What if the NCP had an income of $30,000, but the NCP spouse (stepparent) earned $500,000/year and had substantial unprotected assets? Don’t you think it would be reasonable to expect the NCP, with a family income like that, to contribute more than would be asked of them if the only thing there was the $30,000 income?